This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.